Toy gardening-tool



(N0 Model.)

L. KYSER 8a A. O. REX. Toy Gardening T001.

No. 240,257. Patented April 19,1881.

.PETEIRS, PINOTO-LITHOGRA NEE W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS KYSER AND ALFRED O. REX, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

TOY GARDENING-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 240,257, dated April 19,1881.

Application filed January 6, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

. ALFRED G. REX, of the city of Philadelphia,

county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anImprovement in Toy Gardening-Tools, &c., of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to the construction of gardening and other tools;and it consists in so constructing the blade or working part and handleupon a shaft that the said shaft shall fit into sockets upon such parts,which sockets shall be made with uneored ,holes, all of which will befully set forth in the specification hereunto annexed, shown in theaccompanying drawings, and referred to in the appended claims.

Heretofore these and similar toys have had the sockets cast hollow withcored holes, which construction was very expensive, and the handles havebeen made of wood and attached to or forming part of the shaft.

Our object is to lessen the cost, as much as possible, by soconstructing the parts that there shall be alessened expense in theirproduction; further, that the handle shall be made separate from theshaft, and secured thereon by means of an uncored socket.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a toy spade,embodying in it our invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of same, withpart of blade in cross-section and a portion of the shaft broken away.Fig. 3 is a cross-section of same on line .10 w of Fig. 1, lookingtoward the blade.

A is the blade, B the shaft, and O the handle. To A is secured, or castwith it, a socketpiece, D, connected to it by neck Gr. This socket-pieceD is constructed of substantially three bars cast in one piece, F, H,and part of neck G. The three bars are connected together at either end,thereby leaving a space in the socket opposite to each bar, as shown inFig. 2, in which the space (I is opposite the bar H.

By this construction it is evident that it will not be required to use acore in making the sockets of the castings, since there is only a singlepiece of metal to be molded between the (No model.)

mold-boxes forming the flask in any one vertical line. In looking at theend of the sockets they will appear perfectly round, and when the shaftB is inserted therein it will be held in position by the bars. That partof the shaft opposite any one bar is exposed, as shown.

By this construction the cost of producing toy gardening-tools andanalogous articles is much reduced over the old method of using coredsockets; further, it is an easy matter to secure the shaft in the socketwithout drilling holes through the same for the insertion of pins, forwe simply drive a small nail into the shaft on the side immediatelyopposite the bar,

and through the open part in the casting in Y the socket, as shown at Land M.

Having now described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a gardening-tool or analogousarticle consisting of the blade A, or its equivalent, socket D, composedof the bars F, H, and G, having spaces immediately opposite them, saidbar Gr being extended and secured to the blade, shaft B, secured in thesaid socket D, and handle 0, of cast-iron, provided with a socket, Ecomposed of bars I J K, and spaces immediately opposite said bars, thesaid socket being firmly secured upon the shaft, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a gardening-tool or analogousarticle consisting of the blade A, or its equivalent, socket D, composedof the bars F, H, and G, having spaces immediately opposite them, saidbar G being extended and secured to the blade, and shaft B, secured inthe said socket D, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. A blade of a gardening-tool or its equivalent, in combination with anuncored socket secured to the same, which socket consists,substantially, of bars F H G, and openings directly opposite said bars,whereby the whole may be cast in one piece, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a toy gardening-tool consistiu g ofthe blade A, attached to and forming part of an uneored socket, D, shaftB, and a handle, 0, secured In testimony of which invention we hereuntoto shaft B by socket E, said blade and handle set our hands.

being kept upon the shaft by pins or nails L LOUIS KYSER. M, driven insaid shaft through the openings ALFRED G. REX.

5 in the socket immediately opposite the bars of Witnesses: V

the same, substantially as and for the purpose J OHN SPARHAWK, J r.,

specified. W. EGBERT MITCHELL.

